Blog about diabetes

As usual, weather it is an emergency room or urgent care, it is sit -
sit - sit and wait - wait - wait. Finally got called into room. The
doctor there finally diagnosed a blood clot just down from the inside
bend of the elbow (down towards the wrist, not up towards the
shoulder). And then informed me they do not worry nor treat blood
clots in arms. They do not consider those dangerous. Only in the
legs, chest, or in the artery between the shoulder and neck. So, use
the arm. (Which I have been doing all along) and wait for it to clear
up on its own. He did say if I wanted to try some aspirin to help
it “reabsorb) I could do that. Even though he had the information
paper right in front of him that I can NOT take aspirin. Never could.
Neither could my dad. Thins our blood too much and we have severe
nose bleeds that are very hard to get stopped. He asked if I wanted a
prescription for pain medicine, but told him no. I will use Tylenol.
I really prefer not to use the prescription pain meds unless it is

really bad. Worry about the “getting” hooked part.
Bill was late for getting to work. But it luckily it was only about
an hour. Dropped him at work and then drove myself on home. Boy was
my hand tingling worse after the drive.
I did also stop by my cardiologists office while at the urgent care
(they are in the same building) and he had been trying to call me at
home to let me know he set up my TEE for this Thursday, 9:00 a.m. at
the heart lab at St. Luke’s. (that is where they have always done all
the other TEE’s) It is an echo, but instead of just doing it on the
outside on my chest, they put a probe into my esophagus and do the
echo that way. Can see the heart better, and get more views of it.
Will sedate me (but not enough to be asleep or out of it, so am awake
for it. Which I hate), spray the back of my mouth/throat, shove the
tube down my throat (all the time telling me to swallow to help get
it down, and me being able to feel that big ole hose size thing), it
is flexible so they are able to move it all around to get the views
and such that they want. Also will do a Doppler. I hate listening to
that sound. Sorry, but I am not a big fan of listening to the blood
flowing through the various chambers and all of my heart. I also
don’t look at the screen that shows the echo of my heart itself.
Heck, when Dr. Bollis did the heart catheter a couple years ago, he
told me when the cath was in the heart and said if I turned my head I
could see my heart. NO WAY! He said I was the first patient that
didn’t want to see their heart.
Got hot again today. Reached at least 100. Earlier this week they
were calling for rain by tomorrow and Thursday. I sure hope we get
some good rain. Not necessarily storms, nor hard rain that will just
run off, but nice soft rain that lasts for a couple days.